David Cook-Martín is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His work as a political sociologist focuses on understanding migration, labor, race, ethnicity, law, and citizenship in an international field of power. Geographically, his work has focused on the Americas, but also on Southern Europe. Most recently, his project on temporary labor migration schemes examines cases in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates (subject of a book under contract with Oxford University Press). David’s award winning books include Culling the Masses, coauthored with David FitzGerald (received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award and the 2017 Midwest Sociological Society’s Distinguished Book Award, among other awards), and The Scramble for Citizens (2012) received the  Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award (International Migration Section, ASA). See Book page for additional information.

Before moving to CU Boulder, David  served as professor of sociology and Program Head of New York University Abu Dhabi’s Social Research and Public Policy (SRPP), a faculty member in the sociology department at Grinnell College and as that institution’s Assistant Vice President for Global Education and director of the Institute for Global Engagement. David has been a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, is a former Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Latin American Sociology (UCLA), and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow (UC Irvine).

Email: david dot cook dash two at colorado dot edu; Xwitter: @davidcookmartin